Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning
In the era of technology and borderless world, open and distance learning has become a choice for many adults who wish to pursue tertiary education. In responding to this development, many higher education institutions, including Open University Malaysia, have designed various academic programmes...
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| author | Wong, Huey Siew Oo, Cheng Keat Suhaimi Jamaludin, Mohd Yusuf Ahmad, |
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| description | In the era of technology and borderless world, open and distance learning has
become a choice for many adults who wish to pursue tertiary education. In
responding to this development, many higher education institutions, including
Open University Malaysia, have designed various academic programmes to
meet the needs of adult learners. Senior citizens naturally experience a
decline in their physical, cognitive, motor and memory abilities. Despite having
to face such challenges, many senior citizens have enrolled at the Open
University Malaysia. The objective of this study is to examine their academic
performance, analyse it by gender, age and zone of learning centres; and
identify the issues and challenges they faced. Senior citizens who graduated
from two schools, the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (now known as
Cluster of Education and Social Sciences) and OUM Business School (now
known as Cluster of Business and Management), were included in this study.
Secondary data was used to analyse learners’ academic performance while
interviews were conducted to identify the challenges they faced. The findings
indicated that they had faced difficulties in relation to their health and
information technology skills but still performed well. (Abstract by authors) |
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| spelling | oai:eprints.oum.edu.my:13752023-01-18T06:42:51Z Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning Wong, Huey Siew Oo, Cheng Keat Suhaimi Jamaludin, Mohd Yusuf Ahmad, LB2300 Higher Education LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education LC5800 Distance education In the era of technology and borderless world, open and distance learning has become a choice for many adults who wish to pursue tertiary education. In responding to this development, many higher education institutions, including Open University Malaysia, have designed various academic programmes to meet the needs of adult learners. Senior citizens naturally experience a decline in their physical, cognitive, motor and memory abilities. Despite having to face such challenges, many senior citizens have enrolled at the Open University Malaysia. The objective of this study is to examine their academic performance, analyse it by gender, age and zone of learning centres; and identify the issues and challenges they faced. Senior citizens who graduated from two schools, the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (now known as Cluster of Education and Social Sciences) and OUM Business School (now known as Cluster of Business and Management), were included in this study. Secondary data was used to analyse learners’ academic performance while interviews were conducted to identify the challenges they faced. The findings indicated that they had faced difficulties in relation to their health and information technology skills but still performed well. (Abstract by authors) ASEAN Journal of Open and Distance Learning 2018-12 Article PeerReviewed text https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1375/1/library-document-1375.pdf https://ajodl.oum.edu.my/document/Previous/Volume10.No.2_2018/Article_3_Vol10,No.2,2018.pdf Wong, Huey Siew and Oo, Cheng Keat and Suhaimi Jamaludin, and Mohd Yusuf Ahmad, (2018) Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning. ASEAN Journal of Open & Distance Learning (AJODL), 10 (2). ISSN 2232-0814 https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1375/ |
| spellingShingle | LB2300 Higher Education LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education LC5800 Distance education Wong, Huey Siew Oo, Cheng Keat Suhaimi Jamaludin, Mohd Yusuf Ahmad, Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning |
| title | Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning |
| title_full | Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning |
| title_fullStr | Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning |
| title_short | Challenges and Achievements of Senior Citizen Pursuing Open and Distance Learning |
| title_sort | challenges and achievements of senior citizen pursuing open and distance learning |
| topic | LB2300 Higher Education LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education LC5800 Distance education |
| url | https://ajodl.oum.edu.my/document/Previous/Volume10.No.2_2018/Article_3_Vol10,No.2,2018.pdf https://ajodl.oum.edu.my/document/Previous/Volume10.No.2_2018/Article_3_Vol10,No.2,2018.pdf |